Los Angeles — Pat Boone used to be middle America’s icon during Beaver Cleaver era — ask your parents, he was huge. He’s still huge at the California GOP convention — the party chair asked him to take a bow Friday night before introducing Rep. Michele Bachmann’s star turn. But the man known for his cover of Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” is now talking Tutti Frutti politics: he insisted Friday that President Barack Obama is a Koran-in-Arabic reading, Ramadan-celebrating, Kenyan-born fraud who’s “spending millions” to “hide” his records from the American public.

Pat Boone: crooner gone birther.

“I was in Kenya a year and a half ago and everybody said, ‘You know, he was born here,”’ Boone, a proud member of the Beverly Hills Tea Party told us last night.

Let’s not waste any more time getting right to our award-winning SFChronicle/SFGate.com Shaky Hand Productionscapture of Boone’s birther statements:

Wow.

Pat will be appearing at the Beverly Hills Tea Party hoedown Sunday afternoon, which sounds even more fun than the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” — and makes us want to blow off Sunday at the Republican convention and go party with Pat in the B.H.

Wearing a tan, FIVE-button suit, American flag tie, pink shirt and white buck BOOTS, not shoes — he gets ’em by the boatload from the manufacturer with with “Pat Boone” imprinted on the tongue. Pat wears ’em, then “turns white into green” — selling them for charity.

P. Boone was talkative on other issues too:

On Bachmann: “I think she would make a good president…I don’t know yet whether or not she’s electable in today’s climate, but we would be in good hands….I don’t know whether the country’s ready to elect a woman.”

On gay marriage: “I have many friends, and always have had, who are homosexual..and Rock Hudson was one. So I’m not a homophobe..but I’ve seen some of the consequences of the lifestyle…everyone who opposes marriage between a man and a woman was born of a man and woman.”

On whether he thinks Obama was born in the U.S: “I don’t. I was in Kenya about a year and a half ago and everybody said, “you know he was born here.”…Why else would he be hiding all his records? He is spending millions of dollars so we do not have his records..And experts have already looked at and been able to verify that this long form document is a fraud.
“But the media ignores it….a total fraud. A photo-shopped fraud.”

On Obama’s religion: “Growing up in Indonesia, he used to read the Koran in Arabic..so that was instilled in him as a young boy…he hasn’t celebrated any Christian holidays in the White House, but he does Ramadan.” That may be a surprise to those who have attended, say the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast. Apparently, Pat’s invite is..cough..cough…in the mail.

We’re not going to rehash the whole birther thing. Well, guess we already have. But for the record: the Pulitzer Prize winning website Politifact has devoted a lot of research to the Obama birther rumors. “Ain’t That a Shame,” Pat: it’s all right here.

Though Pat doesn’t expect to endorse a candidate much before the official nomination, he called Friday night a major success for Bachmann, saying “we will be in very good hands if she is the president.” Boone said, she’s more qualified than Obama, to whom he apparently doesn’t give any “Love Letters in the Sand.”